Day 3: Can VR Consulting help with recall?

Day 3 brings me to a common problem that doctors and patients face – forgetting what we’ve been talking about! What can VR offer to help with recall? By changing the setting, props, and avatars we could make things more memorable. Or perhaps we can record it and revisit it whenever we wish?

The HTC Vive Pro starts shipping on April 5th. It's quite a pricey upgrade, but from reviews (and personal experience) it's a noticeable bump in visual quality. The questions is, what difference will this make in clinical terms?

Following the Virtual Medicine conference it's clear that we've already got some great evidence for the use of VR in managing conditions like acute pain, anxiety, procedural support and phobias, with encouraging data on depression, rehabilitation, and chronic pain. I'm not sure that improved graphics will make that much difference?

In some ways this is good news - a cheaper base unit and progress towards cable-free systems. I'd love to hear from anyone who thinks that Vive Pro offers additional clinical benefit at this time. For example, what is the secret of the twin forward facing cameras?

For me, 2018 is the year of standalones, and all of the good work we've seen so far can be adequately provided by middle-tier hardware. It's time to start exploring what new tools this next generation of high-end consumer tech offers patients

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